Alquwez Nahed
Department of Nursing Administration and Education, College of Nursing, Shaqra University, Al Dawadmi, Saudi Arabia.
J Nurs Manag. 2025 May 29;2025:6178630. doi: 10.1155/jonm/6178630. eCollection 2025.
The COVID-19 pandemic experiences of nurses presented many challenges to all aspects of society, including healthcare. Nursing care must adapt to these changes amidst this pandemic to ensure quality nursing care. Thus, exploring the changes in nursing care for COVID-19 patients is essential in understanding how nurses adapt and adjust during a pandemic. This study explored the experiences of staff nurses in providing nursing care during COVID-19 and how they adapted their nursing care to the situation during the pandemic. Using the qualitative phenomenological design, utilizing a semantic thematic approach, 15 nurses in COVID-19 units in government hospitals in Saudi Arabia participated in this study. The study conducted in-depth face-to-face and Zoom interviews from September to December 2021. The analysis followed the steps of the semantic thematic approach. This study showed the evolving nursing care for COVID-19 patients in six major themes: emotional instability, learning, re-learning, and unlearning nursing care, resourcefulness in nursing practice, accepting and adjusting nursing roles, living with COVID-19, and spiritual belief and care. It was uncovered that nurses experienced emotional instability during the pandemic. The pandemic also provided opportunities for nurses to learn new knowledge and skills on COVID-19 prevention, protection, and intervention. They further re-learned basic knowledge on infection control and unlearned nursing practices that were not correctly performed before the pandemic.
护士在新冠疫情中的经历给包括医疗保健在内的社会各个方面都带来了诸多挑战。在这场疫情中，护理工作必须适应这些变化，以确保优质的护理服务。因此，探索新冠患者护理工作的变化对于理解护士在疫情期间如何适应和调整至关重要。本研究探讨了注册护士在新冠疫情期间提供护理服务的经历，以及他们如何使护理工作适应疫情期间的形势。采用质性现象学设计，运用语义主题分析法，沙特阿拉伯政府医院新冠病房的15名护士参与了本研究。该研究在2021年9月至12月期间进行了深入的面对面访谈和视频会议访谈。分析过程遵循语义主题分析法的步骤。本研究揭示了针对新冠患者护理工作演变的六个主要主题：情绪不稳定、学习、重新学习与摒弃旧有护理方式、护理实践中的应变能力、接受并调整护理角色、与新冠共存以及精神信仰与关怀。研究发现，护士在疫情期间经历了情绪不稳定。疫情也为护士提供了学习新冠预防、防护和干预新知识与技能的机会。他们进一步重新学习了感染控制的基础知识，并摒弃了在疫情之前未正确执行的护理操作。
